Reading Essentials: 322 books

*Cracker Barrel Troubleshooter *is about Bill Rawls, a college student whose guardian - his uncle - dies after having frittered away Bill’s fortune. All that’s left is a country store in a tiny former lumber town called Elk Shanty. Bill could probably work his way through the rest of his college...

How big was this New World? Was it just a narrow strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? In 1670 no one knew the answers to these questions. Perhaps the settlers on the east coast were too busy to spend much time wondering. It was not so with Jacques Marquette, the missionary from France....

Actually three books in one, this book contains three unrelated stories. The first is about a dog's encounters with a wild dog who has killed the dog's owner. The second is about a wild stallion who is befriended by a boy. The third is about a dog who is believed to be a sheep-killer who is taken...

A tale about the special abilities of an Aborigine hunter! Driven by famine and drought, and armed only with a boomerang and a few hand-made spears, Balulu, an Australian Aborigine boy, and his tame, dog-like dingo named Warrigal, cross the danger-filled desert in desperate search of new lands, the last hope for their primitive tribe.

The fascinating story of a polar bear and her search for her two cubs, this is also a story of the snowbound Arctic and of the surprising number of birds and animals that live in its inhospitable wastes.  Kalak was a polar bear whose ferocity and cunning had convinced the Eskimos that she...

Pepe, a young Mexican goat-herder, courageously fights the superstitions of his uncle as well as a killer jaguar in this story about a Mexican boy who must try to kill a tiger to save his family. His friendship with a sportsman from the United States adds depth to the exciting adventures of the story. An...

The Western Writers of America awarded the Golden Spur Award to Jim Kjelgaard for this "Best Juvenile Novel", a novel for young readers about an Apache boy. Will appeal to adult readers as well. Jonathan, a full blood Hawk Apache, returns to his tribe after six years in the white man's schools.

Nature has been called "The effect whose cause is God." IN the world of man, Ulysses stumbled and bumbled constantly, but in the world of the forest where he surprisingly became winter caretaker and lone occupant of an isolated hunters' lodge, he attained dignity, wisdom and assurance as...

Compelling story of wild life, with black and white illustrations.

In what is considered one of his most prominent ideas, Austrian psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud explains the dynamic of the human psyche in terms of the roles and conflicts produced by the id, ego, and super-ego. Freud suggests that all human behaviors and traits, including personality disorders, are created by the complex conflicts and workings of these three components of human personality.

A man survives a shipwreck - only to find his memory wiped clean and a stranger at his bedside claiming to be his wife.

His powers made Henry Danner more than mortal, but less than human. He was stronger than the mythic heroes of old and nigh invulnerable. This is the powerful novel of an american superman.

Kenneth Malone - sometimes known as Sir Kenneth of The Queen's Own FBI - has had problems with telepathic spies, and more than somewhat nutty telepathic counterspies. But this case of the vanishing delinquents is at least as bad...

In this cozy Highland tale of fishing and romance we have the poacher Aleac, his fiery redhead niece Margaret, Norray the actress who has bewitched all the young gentlemen but hasn't been captured herself, and Paddy Joe Long an Irishman whose lively personality brightens the book up. The story starts...